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The former Police frontman, real name Gordon Sumner, has been blasted by former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott.

He told The Sunday Times ordinary taxpayers 'can't shuffle their future earnings into a lower tax year and they have to pay to maintain the overseas aid budget'.

Bassist and singer Sting sold 50 million albums with The Police before launching his own successful solo career

Doug McWilliams, chief executive of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, said: 'Musicians, film stars and sportsmen have got more scope than ordinary professional people to adjust their earnings.'

Mr McWilliams issued a report last week claiming the 50p tax was pushing Britain's wealth creators beyond a 'psychological threshold' that makes them more likely to resort to tax-saving devices.

It predicts that after initially netting the Treasury £2.5 billion, the 50p tax threshold will cost it £1 billion a year by 2015.